2013 Allergy and FreeFrom Show? Packed - humming - hectic – and that was at 10.30 in the morning. Come 1.30 – try rammed, jammed and 'don't leave your stand as you will never get back'... To be fair, large buggies swollen to twice their width by hundreds of bulging carrier …
What allergy?
Allergen-free skiing in the French Alps
Those of you who follow our FreeFromRecipesMatter site will know that, before Christmas Chef Kat at the Alikats Chalet in Morzine was our guest chef and provided us with the recipes for some of the seriously yummy 'freefrom' dishes that she serves to guests. Well, Ruth Holroyd …
And we think we’ve got problems….
I thought, when we put Caleigh (the Gluten Freek)'s story up on the sites, that as short dietary straws go, she had drawn one of the shortest. (Caleigh has suffered from Crohn's disease since she was a teenager and five years ago, joined a mercifully select band of only 600 …
Lactic acid
In a recent blog bemoaning the failure of wine makers to include allergens in the labeling on the bottles, Ruth at What Allergy? said that she had had a bad reaction (eczema – hard, liquid filled lumps which itched until scratched – on her eye lids, cheeks, forhead and across …
Living with eczema
Those of us lucky enough to have relatively normal skin all pay lip service to 'how awful it must be to have bad eczema' and 'those poor little children' with weeping, open sores. (Pictures courtesy of Dr Harry Morrow Brown.) And indeed we do feel genuinely sympathetic – but how …